CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
RELIGION
- Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
- Sacrament of First Holy Communion
- Christ Our Life: God Cares for Us
- Jesus Calls us to give ourselves in love
- The Church’s celebration of God’s care
- Jesus gives us the gift of Himself
- St. Mary’s Press: Go, Seek, Find!
- Bible study based Sacramental preparation program
- Saint of the Week
- In depth analysis of a different saint each week
- Students create a saint book at the end of the year
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys (ELA/Literacy program aligned to the Common Core ELA Standards)
- Apps: Spelling City, Epic!, Freckle
- Literacy:
- Fluency
- Phonics
- Spelling strategies
- Writing strategies:
- Organizational skills
- Compare and contrast
- Persuasive essay
- Original fairy tale short story and script
- Each fairy tale is performed in front of the whole school
- Accelerated Reader Program — Personalized goals for independent reading practice
MATHEMATICS
- My Math (aligned to Common Core Math Standards)
- Apps: Sumdog and Freckle
- Time
- Double digit addition and subtraction
- Money
- Represent and interpret data
- Foundations of multiplication
- Measure and estimate in standard units
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Houghton Mifflin History-Social Science: Neighborhoods (Aligned to Common Core History-Social Science standards)
- Scholastic Weekly Readers
- Explore every day and historical heroes
- Create simple maps of neighborhoods
- Discover the importance of laws and government
- Demonstrate basic economic reasoning
SCIENCE
Scholastic Weekly Readers
- NGSS Aligned Curriculum
- Hands-on Experiments
- Animal Wax Museum
ENRICHMENT CURRICULUM
FIELD TRIPS
- Robotics field trip to Legoland
- Reconciliation Prayer walk
- Retreat at St Catherine of Siena Parish
- Christmas Caroling at St Catherine of Siena Women’s Guild Christmas Luncheon
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
- Movement concepts
- Social skills
- Team building
- Flexibility
- Locomotor Movement
- Manipulative skills
- Fitness Concepts
- Healthy choices
- Dance
ART
- Perceive and describe repetition and balance in nature, in the environment, and in works of art.
- Perceive and discuss differences in mood created by warm and cool colors.
- Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of basic tools and art-making processes, such as printing, crayon rubbings, collage, and stencils.
- Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of art media, such as oil pastels, watercolors, and tempera.
- Sculpture: clay assemblage and mixed media
Some projects include:
- Self Portraits
- Rainbow Fish – Collage and patterning assemblage
- Chicken Little – Patterns and Assemblage
- Skeletons in Q tips – fun representing the human skeleton
- Oil Pastel Sheep Drawing to show texture – Reconciliation
- Our Lady of Guadalupe – Patterning and Culture
- Printmaking – Styrofoam relief print Cross
- 3 Dimensional Paper Mache Dinosaur using Egg Cartons
MUSIC
- Apply vocal and instrumental musical skills
- Listen to, analyze, and describe music
- Read and perform simple rhythmic patterns using eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes, and rests
- Sing age-appropriate songs from memory
- Understand the historical contributions and cultural dimensions of music
- School-wide participation in the Pacific Symphony Class Act program
SPANISH
- Learn basic listening/speaking skills
- Basic vocabulary concepts include: Greeting, stating your name, classroom objects, numbers 1-15, colors, days of the week, directions, animals, adjectives, body parts, clothing, family, community, food and feelings
TECHNOLOGY
- Internet Safety and Digital Citizenship — Online Safety, Cyberbullying, Copyright, Social Networking
